Staff Reporter :The BNP on Tuesday expressed solidarity with the Ramkrishna Mission as the militants had issued a death threat to the Chief of the Mission. “We have expressed our solidarity with the Ramkrishna Mission as the Chief of the Mission has been threatened by militants that he will be hacked to death. The mission is a historic institute, so the threat made the people, especially Hindus community, anxious,” said BNP Standing Committee member Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain. The BNP senior leader also said their party wants a national consensus to eliminate militancy and terrorism from the country. In the wake of the death threat, a seven-member delegation of BNP led by Dr. Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain went to the mission yesterday. They held a meeting with the Mission Principal Swami Dhrubesha Nandji Moharaj. The meeting lasted for half an hour.He told journalists that, “We came here to express our solidarity at the instruction of our party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.” Dr. Mosharraf Hossain said, “Recently some miscreants have given death threat to the chief of Ramkrishna Mission by sending a letter. We, along with the people of Bangladesh are anxious with the matter. Our Chairperson Khaleda Zia feels that seriously. She has sent us here to declared unity with the mission. We condemn the threat.” He also said, “We said to the Principal of the Mission that we are always with them, when we were in power and now.Replying to a query of a journalist, Dr. Mosharraf Hossain said the principal has expressed happiness over the BNP delegation’s visit to the mission. The senior BNP leader also said, his party condemned all target killings and terror activities. Wherever any incidents took place BNP team reached there and expressed condolences.He said that whenever any incident happened the government had played blame game. “The government always try to divert the public eyes from their failures by playing blame game,” he said, adding that every quarter should be get out from such act. He reiterated that BNP is a liberal democratic party and never support or involve with militancy and extremism.He called for a greater unity and compromise with all the political parties and others. He also gave importance to democratic atmosphere saying that it is now absence from Bangladesh. BNP Standing Committee member Goyeswar Chandra Roy, central leader Abdullah Al Noman, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Nitai Roy Chowdhury, Abdus Salam Azad and Joyonto Kumar Kundu were the other members of the delegation.
